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Sin Yee Koh is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. She holds a PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MSc in Contemporary Urbanism with Distinction from the same institution, a Master of Architecture from the National University of Singapore, and a BA in Architecture from the National University of Singapore. Her career trajectory includes the role of Senior Lecturer in Global Studies at Monash University Malaysia from July 2018, Assistant Professor in Geography at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam from June 2015 to June 2018, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Public Policy at City University of Hong Kong from February 2014 to May 2015. She currently serves as Senior Assistant Professor and Director at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.

Koh's research specializations and academic interests cover migration, diasporas, and citizenship; globalisation of real estate and foreign real estate investment; new Chinese migrations and mobility; cities and the super-rich, elite practices, and urban political economies; postcolonial approaches to migration in Asia; state-led talent return migration and citizenship; race and bumiputera-differentiated citizenship in Malaysian-Chinese transnational migration; property tourism and investment-migration mobility in Asia; elite transnational lifestyles and the elite mobilities industry; comparative urbanism in Southeast Asia such as Brunei-Miri and Singapore-Iskandar Malaysia; and geographies of education-induced skilled migration. She received the John A. Lent Prize for the best paper on Malaysia, Singapore, or Brunei presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. Key publications include her monograph Race, Education, and Citizenship: Mobile Malaysians, British Colonial Legacies, and a Culture of Migration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); co-edited volumes Cities and the Super-Rich: Real Estate, Elite Practices, and Urban Political Economies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), New Chinese Migrations: Mobility, Home, and Inspirations (Routledge, 2018), and The Globalisation of Real Estate: The Politics and Practice of Foreign Real Estate Investment (Routledge, 2018); and peer-reviewed articles such as Enabling, Structuring and Creating Elite Transnational Lifestyles: Intermediaries of the Super-Rich and the Elite Mobilities Industry (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2018), Postcolonial Approaches to Migration in Asia: Reflections and Projections (Geography Compass, 2015), and How and Why Race Matters: Malaysian-Chinese Transnational Migrants Interpreting and Practising Bumiputera-Differentiated Citizenship (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2015). She has served as principal investigator on grants from Monash University Malaysia School of Arts and Social Sciences and Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and undertaken consultancies for Deakin University and Talent Corporation Malaysia Berhad.